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Originally Posted by Pookie

Luckily this isn't a problem because they're not a nuclear state and have no intention of being one. That's why they're signed up to the NPT (and actually are pushing not only to end proliferation but start reducing the number of nuclear weapons) unlike Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East; and they have always cooperated with the IAEA, unlike Israel and America who refuse to let them inspect their already existing nuclear weapons. And incidentally I live in a "democracy" but I've never been able to vote on whether we have nuclear weapons and how they'll be used."Holding these arms is a sin as well as useless, harmful and dangerous" (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei).
How are they being threatened with annihilation?

not a good morning for discussing politics for me (sleepy, need food, about to start watching football) but you make some very good points about the self-appointed privilege of "do as i say, not as i do" existing nuclear powers.

however, even with that in mind, i don't believe a fucking work that comes out of the mouth of any ayatollah-- just like i don't believe a word that comes out of the mouth of bibi netanyahu either. but bibi can be voted out.

the reason israel is "threatened with annihilation" in a nuclear scenario is because it's a tiny country that is easy to wipe out with nukes.

now you could say "nah, no islamic nation would ever fire such weapons so close to their muslim brothers in palestine", but the poor palestinians have a history of always being pawns in someone else's chess game, be that jordan, lebanon/syria, egypt, or someone else. and with that in mind there's always the possibility for some sort of "glorious martyr cause" that could justify nuking them along with the israelis in the name of some glorious religious bullshit.